From: Subbiah Arunachalam <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2015 06:00:27 +0530

There need not be any confusion here. All that DOAJ seal confers, if I
understand it right, is that the journal is fully open access. How can
folks at DOAJ evaluate merits of journals in diverse fields? What they
are doing seems to be fine.

Arun


On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 4:48 AM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> From: Joseph Esposito <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2015 08:22:20 -0400
>
> Gosh, Richard, this is disappointing.  Best practices without academic
> merit?  What's the point?
>
> I spend a great deal of my time working with professional societies to
> help them establish OA services - I wrote about this a while ago:
>
> http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2015/01/05/making-a-case-for-open-access/
>
> but the DOAJ policy is a real setback.  In my experience authors put
> the highest priority on the prestige of the journal they publish in.
>
> Joe Esposito
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 3:32 PM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> > From: Richard James <[log in to unmask]>
> > Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2015 09:28:51 -0400
> >
> > Joe, it states that it doesn't judge on 'academic merit', not 'academic
> > standards', which is a completely different animal.
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 4:06 PM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > >
> > > From: Joseph Esposito <[log in to unmask]>
> > > Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2015 14:28:31 -0400
> > >
> > > I must be missing something here. If the seal is bestowed for, among
> > > other things, "publishing standards," how can it ignore academic
> > > standards? Don't academic standards trump all other criteria?
> > >
> > > Joe Esposito
> > >
> > > On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 2:16 PM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > From: Dominic Mitchell <[log in to unmask]>
> > > > Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2015 11:29:51 +0200
> > > >
> > > > In our continuing efforts to make it easier for authors, librarians,
> > > > and readers to identify high quality open access journals, DOAJ has
> > > > now activated its DOAJ Seal which is awarded to journals that adhere
> > > > to high levels of openness, best practice and publishing standards.
> > > >
> > > > https://doajournals.wordpress.com/2015/06/11/doaj-seal-is-now-live-on-the-site/
> > > >
> > > > There are currently 88 journals in DOAJ that have the Seal. We've
> > > > added a facet to the search so that users can identify Seal journals
> > > > immediately. http://bit.ly/1S7wNxl
> > > >
> > > > It is important to note that DOAJ Seal does not and indeed cannot
> > > > judge journals on their academic merit.
> > > >
> > > > Best, Dom
> > > > Community Manager